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Whatever your age your mind and body can benefit from a workout, but while hitting the gym can have enormous benefits in your 20s, pounding the treadmill at 60 is not advisable. Emma Krieger asks the experts what we should be doing at different stage

To help tailor your workout needs to your age, we chart the must-do’s and don’t-do’s for fitness throughout the decades.

Appearing slimmer, taller and more statuesque, all comes down to how you hold yourself.

Good posture has all manner of benefits. It means that the skeleton is aligned and therefore, your bones are in the right place and not under untoward stress (it also makes you look much more elegant in a cocktail dress!)

Do all the postures on the right side first (ie: right foot facing forward), staying in each posture for about five breaths and moving from posture to posture with the in and out breath. Then do the left side. Always breathe through the nose and only

We walk about 128,000kms in our lifetime – the equivalent of three times around the world – and for the fashion-driven woman, a lot of those steps are spent clunking around precariously in high heels, stilettos and platforms. But what is this doing t